#monochromacy

Anon, I feel like you might've needed to read some of the other reblogs on that post. The manga does a decent job of differentiating all four five boys pretty well!

In any case, that would just make me perpetuate the joke harder, because the type of colorblindness in my family is cone monochromacy.

Alistair, There’s a popular new fad going around my school. It’s these little devices that flash different colors up in sequence. I’m colorblind, so I can’t actually appreciate the colors. It’s getting unsettling. Outside of class, everyone just stands in the hall staring at them. They don’t play videos, they don’t play games, they don’t have information. It’s just colors. Now it’s started to…

This is the first two pages of the current script for Monochromacy, feel free to contact me if you’d like to see more!

PAGE 1

Note to Colorist: Keith, our main character, is completely color blind. He sees in monochromatic colors, and since we are seeing the world through his eyes even if not directly, the whole comic will be in black and white, and grey perhaps if that seems appropriate. He also has a colored aura that will appear when he’s at the scene of a violent crime, which goes on to effect other people around him, in his eyes. The color and where it will be is in the description of the panels. Think of it like a pop color, it’s there to make whatever it’s highlighting stand out to the reader, as it makes them stand out to Keith. In the case of this issue, the color is orange.

Panel 1

Just a panel full of orange, solid. Wide panel.

KEITH/CAPTION

Orange. Why fuckin’ orange? It’s almost as bad as yellow.

KEITH/CAPTION

And it’s everywhere.

Panel 2

Camera pulls out a little, hair visible through the orange tinge.

KEITH/CAPTION

So goddamn bright, it’s enough to make you sick. Everywhere’s so damn orange.

Panel 3

Pull out again. Tight shot of a young woman’s face, eyes closed. Looks almost peaceful.

KEITH/CAPTION

Even her skin’s that shitty fuckin’ color, like it’s oozing from her pores.

Panel 4

Pull out. We can see her torso now, but make sure the top of her head’s still cut off by the panel border. We want to save the surprise of the blood and gooey bits for last. For reference, however, she’s had her head repeatedly smacked against the asphalt she’s on. She’s wearing a blouse, all still tinged orange.

KEITH/CAPTION

Her clothes.

Panel 5

Pull back. Looking down at her full body, still almost an illusion that she’s sleeping.

KEITH/CAPTION

God, I hate this fuckin’ color.

 PAGE 2

Panel 1

Splash page. Finally reveal the grisly truth of her brains splattered about her head like an orange halo.

KEITH/CAPTION

Don’t even look like blood. Just an orange goddamn mess. Like someone fisted an orange to a pulp.

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